Re: GTK emebedded

[Ian McKellar <yakk-gnome-devel yakk net au>]

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 01:07:52PM -0700, Andy Tai wrote:
> This is clearly mis-information.  Libc or libX or Motif on proprietary Unices
> (or Win32/MFC on Windows) are part of the operating system distributed by
> proprietary OS vendors and thus can be linked to GPLed code due to the "system
> clause."  A proprietary GDK does not count as such.
> Please check your facts first before spreading them.

If the proprietary (clean room) GDK is part of the OS there is no problem
linking GPLed apps against them. I stand by this statement - I don't like it,
but thats what the GPL allows. How is a proprietary GDK different from a
proprietary libX or Motif?

Ian